Meet Chris Natzke

Chris Natzke works with organizations and individuals who want to inspire themselves and their teams to reach higher levels of leadership, teamwork, passion and breakthrough results in both their personal and professional lives by adopting a Champion's Mindset. 

He is not only a champion himself but has been training leaders and their teams to find their own Inner Champions for over four decades.  As an 8^th Degree Black Belt/Master Instructor and former national Taekwondo champion, Chris ranks in the top 1% of all martial artists in the world. 

Get Ready to Learn, Laugh and Be Inspired

Infusing martial arts breakthrough philosophies and physical movements with his engaging presence and humor, Chris is known for his ability to take difficult and elusive leadership principles and make them easy to understand and accessible for everyday professionals and leaders, across generations.

As a keynote speaker, seminar leader, life-leadership coach and author, Chris’s passion is sharing his unique brand of Black Belt Leadership so others may discover the most empowered version of themselves – leading to clarity of purpose, increased confidence and the courage to take inspired action to make their dreams come true.

Whether he is talking about his own experiences or stories of the thousands of students/clients he has impacted over his four decades as a martial arts master instructor and leader, audiences are inspired to access their own Inner Champions as leaders and powerfully face and overcome any of the challenges they may encounter.  Importantly, at the end of each program, attendees will walk away with practical tools and strategies to dramatically impact their own personal and professional leadership journeys.

Prior to becoming a professional speaker, Chris owned one of the most successful martial arts schools in the United States and served as a leadership consultant to numerous martial arts business owners across the country.  Before that, he worked for 10 years as a sales executive for the nation’s largest consumer products company where he managed millions of dollars of consumer products sales and led the national roll out of several important new item initiatives.

Collegiately, he was a 4-year letterman in football at Northwestern University.  In 2013, he graduated with a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica and published his first book, Black Belt Leadership: 7 Keys to Creating Life of Purpose by Discovering Your Inner Champion. In 2021, he released his second book, Amazon #1 Best-Seller, BREAKING THROUGH: 3 Winning Strategies to Create Breakthrough Results in Your Life, Business and Relationships. 

Outside of speaking, Chris is an avid traveler, having journeyed across Europe, Russia and New Zealand.  In 2014, he successfully completed the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile walk across northern Spain.  At home, you’ll find him working out, reading a great book, attending a yoga class, volunteering at his church or enthusiastically cheering on his beloved Denver Broncos.

Chris resides in the Denver, Colorado area with his two grown sons and a multitude of friends.